For years, we have heard a litany of reasons why our capacity to pay attention is disturbingly on the wane. Technology—the ...

But Chinquapin felt like the sort of Southern town that Disney's imagineers might have conjured for Epcot Center. It felt ...

Consider this essay a sample of my extended criticism. Herewith some samples of my epigrammatic criticism: Robert Creeley’s poems have two main characteristics: (1) they are short; (2) they are not ...

On the 200th anniversary of his death, two new books explore the life and work of the poet who inspired the Byronic hero — ...

The list of academics who successfully combine American cultural criticism with professional scholarship is a short one. Among these, I’d list Laura Kipnis, Christopher Lasch, Jill Lepore, John ...

Literary satire, analysis, end epigrammatic wit abound among the more cultured ; and a quiet sympathy, restful manner, and keen, general intelligence, with a thorough knowledge of one's own ...

It is not often that an epigrammatic expression from a spiritual text migrates to the material world to emerge as a popular ...

Its structure, ensemble cast and epigrammatic prose lend it a theatrical air – Dolan’s love of The Importance of Being Earnest comes as no surprise. This book confirms her as an artful comic ...

Then would burst forth one of those longer or shorter epigrammatic or aphoristic sayings which their friends all recall so well, full of meaning, full of kindliness and humor, never sarcastic ...

Oxford University Press, 1955, 638 pp. This first volume of a new series, The Oxford History of Modern Europe, deals with the external relations of the European Great Powers from the Revolution of ...

once again he is very funny as he sets the character--a pipe-smoking businessman-ambassador who parries a Senate subcommittee with high-toned clipped speech and epigrammatic sophistication.

In “Ki,” the impetus came from Danish poet Piet Hein’s epigrammatic “Making Sense,” with the lines: “Life makes sense / and who could doubt it, / if we have / no doubt about it.” Her imagery, ...